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I have a postpaid plan, 10 EUR, with 100 free minutes per month.There is no difference between day an night, weekday and weekend day.If I spend the 100 minutes, then every minutes cost 0.19 EUR, in 60/10. The SMS cost allways 0.19 EUR each. Also i have 150 free sms, after them 0,19 EUR. There is no difference if the calls are to my operator or other operator.My data access cost 0,09 EUR per Kb.

Using start rates means when your phone call starts in weekend (or daytime), it will be charged with weekend (or evening) rates, even if it lasts into weekday (or evening).

And it seems your free minutes and SMS are just not reflected in your balance info. You can try changing one of them to a different value and then change them back to see whether they will be correctly reflected in your balance info.

As for the data usage info displaying, I will update it in my future release so it can display time info instead of traffic info.

My phone is a "Xda Orbit 2" (I think, it's only in germany avaible), a branded/designed by O2 version, based on the HTC Touch Cruise or HTC Polaris or HTC P3650 (I don't know, how it's named in canada). With Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

Now it work's. I don't know why, suddenly it work's. I only changed some things in the settings.

How is it possible, do delete all dates of your program? I will reinstall it to know, what I changed. But at my first attempt, my settings were saved anywhere. It's because I will support german users with the same problem...

I reinstalled your prgoram, again the free-minutes and free-sms aren't displayed on the today-screen. Anda again, this Information was diplayed, after edit a date in the "Current Balance"-menu. Maybe this is a bug?

Also I noted, that a sms, which was not sended, because missing connection, will be counted to sended sms (is this explantation in my english unterstandable?, i hope). Maybe you can sometime change that.

But, all in all, that's the best program in this field. Great work!

Still one question: Free-minutes were count as full minutes, is that right?

Yes this is a bug, I have tried to fix it in this 1.44, but it seems it has not fixed it. I will investigate further.

For the failed to send SMS counted as sent, I feel really strange, because I count a SMS is sent only when it's moved from outbox folder to sent folder, which means sending, along with other flags.

Free minutes can only be minutes (not seconds), but the deduction of free minutes is decided by your charge interval. For example if your charge interval is 10 seconds, then your call minutes will always be rounded up to the next 10 seconds.

Installed latest LC Minutes yesterady night (24th April) for my ATT Tilt used on Fido with Blackberry connect. My data display was working OK ( I also have SPB GPRS monitor installed). About an hour ago noticed on the Today screen, it indicates 1.03M (SPB shows total data usage today of 30K)after midnight, it showed less than 10K. Rebooted device and now shows 2.05M. Generally get about 2kB extra per reboot, when BB connect starts.When I start LCminutes, my view is for only 'data' I have the following data entries

08-04-25 14:36:58 11:4310.185.222.70: (365, 2067) bytes

08-04-25 13:42:33 52:1410.185.196.80: (895, 2042) bytes

08-04-22 22:12:10 15:29:4110.184.136.210 (22084, 7227) bytes

When I select 'show data allowance', I get 2.05M/0M.Changing my data Limit to either 7000 KB or 7168 KB does not change the displayed 2.05M/0M

And for data allowance not displaying, I have tried to fix it but seems no success. Could you please choose NO when you are prompted to apply it to your previous call and SMS, after you change and save the data allowance value in your rate plan setting?

Thanks. I use BB connect which is an always on BIS data connection.Interstingly though I am not given any option to apply/not apply changes to my previous call and SMS, after I change and save the data allowance value in my rate plan setting?

First of all thank you very much for LCMinutes - it's excellent software and works great on my Eten M700 with WM6.

There is one thing I do not fully understand as regards calculation of used SMS with 'Shared SMS/Call' option on.

I have rate plan with shared SMS/Calls (12 seconds per 1 SMS) and here is how LCMinutes behaves:

1. If I turn off the option 'Shared SMS/Call' then each call and SMS is counted correctly, i.e. each call increases 'Used minutes' counter and each SMS I send increases 'Used SMS' counter.

2. However, if I turn on that option then both calls and SMS increase only 'Used minutes' counter, i.e. if I send SMS then 'Used SMS' counter do not change (unexpected) and 'Used minutes' increases by 12 seconds (expected).

I thought that with that option turned on both minutes and SMS counters should increase simultaneously with proportion defined by relation between SMS and seconds - do I understand it correctly? In such case please let me know if I should set something additionally to obtain such behaviour or maybe there is a little bug which could be fixed in next release?

At the moment I cope with that issue by turning off the option (share SMS/calls is not taken into consideration by LCMinutes in such case but at least I have correct values on SMS and calls counters).

Thank you in advance for your comment.And once again - thanks for great application!

I am sorry, I am quite ignorant about technical issues. Could you possibly help? I have 300 minutes per month I share with my wife. All night calls between 9:00PM and 7:00AM are totally free and all week-end calls between 9:00PM Friday and 7:00AM Monday are free. No data, no text messaging, etc. I have a voice plan only. How would I set that up?

The shared minutes is not really important to me, just how many I use personally. As far as Alltel is concerned, all persons with that carrier can talk to each other and it doesn't take away either of their minutes. How does the program know when your free evening rate start? Some of the upper level plans your evening starts at 7PM.Thanks for the response,I was hoping there was some way to exclude certain numbers....

To see how much free-minutes used in the today-screen, you have to check 'show used daytime minutes' (in the 'Today Display Items'-menu). Also you can see this number in the 'Current Balance'-menu.

As far as Alltel is concerned, all persons with that carrier can talk to each other and it doesn't take away either of their minutes. ---> In Germany, mostly, the people who the same provider, have the same preselection, then it is possible, to add this in the field for free calls

How does the program know when your free evening rate start? Some of the upper level plans your evening starts at 7PM.---> You set this with '21-07' in the 'Current Rate Plan'-menu under 'Evening'; 21 stands for 9PM 07 for 7AM

Hey Lyon,can you help me with setup my phone? I dont have any free minutes. I pay for calls another tax in day (8am-6pm)and another tax in evening (6pm-8am)- from Monday to Sunday.Can you help me? Thank you. Kamil

Hi Lyon,thanks for your help, but I have just one question. My operator make one change and now I pay for calls in weekend(Saturday, Sunday) like calls in evening. How can I setup weekend calls like evening calls.Thank you very muchKamil